Attachment for horse-collars.



No. 667,696. Patented Fish. :2, 19m.

H. L. GULLINE.

ATTACHMENT FDVR' HORSE GOLL'ABS.

(AppHation -fi1ed Doc. 28, 1899.)

(No man.)

HENRY LAWRENCE GULLINE, OF GRANBY, CANADA.

ATTACHME NT FOR HORSE-COLLARS.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 667,696, dated February12, 1901. Application filed December 23, 1899- Serial No. 741,484. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY LAWRENCE GUL- LINE, manufacturer, of Granby,in the Province of Quebec, Canada, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Attachments for Horse-Collars; and I do hereby declarethat the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention has for its object to provide a device to be detachablymounted upon the rim of a horse-collar and carry a number of bells orornaments of any kind.

The invention may be said, broadly, to consist of a crown-pieceforhorse-collar rims comprising a main frame-strip and branch stripscarried thereby, its more specific construction calling for a resilientmain frame-strip adapted to be sprung upon the rim of the collar andsuitable means, such as a series of in wardly-projecting dowel-pins, totake into a series of sockets in the said rim.

In the accompanying drawings my invention is illustrated as applied to ahollow metallic horse-collar rim, Figure 1 being a front elevation, andFig. 2 a plan, thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

b is a horse-collar rim, which may be of any approved construction, butis shown as of the hollow metal type.

The frame of my crown-piece attachment consists of a strip 0 ofresilient metal bent into inverted-V form, the legs whereof arepreferably braced together near the apex of the V, preferably by theannular section at, which may inclose a star or other ornament. Thelower ends 0 c of the legs of the framestrip carry a series of rigiddowel-pins e on their inside faces to take into holes or sockets f ineach side of the rim, and the outside faces of said legs have securedthereto a series of branch strips 9 in the form of howsprings forcarrying bells h, as shown, or other ornaments, such as plumes, &c.

It is obvious that to set my crown-piece in place it is only necessaryto spring the legs of the frame-strip apart and place the ends in aposition to have the dowel-pins register with the holes or sockets inthe rim, when upon releasing the legs they will, owing to their naturalresiliency, spring back and grip the rim with the pins in their sockets,thereby retaining the crown-piece firmly in place. To remove thecrown-piece, it is only necessary to spring the legs apart until thedowel-pins are free of the sockets.

What I claim is as follows:

An attachment for horse-collar rims consisting of a crown-piececomprising a resilient frame-strip c of flat resilient metal in the formof an inverted V adapted to be sprung upon the peak of the horse-collar;and a series of rigid dowel-pins c on the inside faces of the lowerends, of the strip 0, a bracingsection 01, adjacent to the apex of saidV, resilient branch strips 9 secured by rivets to said frame-strip and aseries of bells h mounted upon each of said resilient branch strips,substantially as described and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have afiixed my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

HENRY LAWRENCE GULLINE.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM P. MCFEAT, ARTHUR H. EVANS.

